Alex Quotes

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.

I think it's important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don't win, and that sucks, and you work on improving.

My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

I know it's a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.

You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.

As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

Even technology companies get good news sometimes.

It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

It's so easy to lose your fitness and so hard to gain it back.

To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you're worth - rather than what your employer is paying you.

The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.

Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

My girls are great at making fun of Dad. They're never impressed with anything I do. I love that. I hope that never changes.